Ukrainian Novelist: Putin Is A Beast Russians Must Destroy

Volodymyr Rafeyenko of Donetsk, a Ukrainian novelist, has slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin for ruining his own nation, burning his own culture, and devouring Ukraine, all because he couldn't get out of the tsarist rabbit hole that views Russia as superior and its leaders destined to "unite" with "little Russians" or "white Russians."

Photo Insert: “The West needs to understand that in the war, it is not Putin who is guilty. He did not create the Russians. The Russians created Putin. He is their instrument, their alter ego. He is the flesh of Russian culture as it is, without illusions or sentimentality. And this beast must be stopped.”

In an interview with Marci Shore of Yale University for Project Syndicate on July 2, 2022, Rafeyenko said “there’s a war going on here, a war aimed at the annihilation of the Ukrainian people. The Russians have come to annihilate us as a nation, as a people who have dared to choose their own path of development, one not coinciding with the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions, with the revanchist desires of the mass of the Russian people. The terrible truth is this: a decisive majority of Russians support the annihilation of the Ukrainian people. On the battlefield, the Russians are merciless; in the occupied territories, they carry out atrocities. They pillage and rape, they kill women and children without mercy.”

“Yes, what is exceptional in what is happening now consists in this transparency. It’s no longer possible to bury your head in the sand and not see. If you do not see the Russian atrocities, if you do not see Russia as an anthropological catastrophe, you are consciously not seeing it. In this way, you are also making a choice between good and evil,” Rafeyenko argued.

“The West needs to understand that in the war, it is not Putin who is guilty. He did not create the Russians. The Russians created Putin. He is their instrument, their alter ego. He is the flesh of Russian culture as it is, without illusions or sentimentality. And this beast must be stopped.”

“From my point of view, the fundamental system error of Russian culture is this: it has consciously placed itself outside of and above general human values … Russians believe that they cannot and should not be judged according to laws and standards common to all people, and that in this sense everything is permitted. ‘Moscow – the Third Rome,’ they’re used to thinking of themselves. Yet quite suddenly it’s turned out that this is not the Third Rome, but the Fourth Reich,” Rafeyenko concluded.

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